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Mistral’s Large 4 Gives Everyone a Cyber Defense Model — and That’s the Point

October 30, 2026October 30, 2026 by Shoaib Hassan

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Mistral’s Large 4 Gives Everyone a Cyber Defense Model — and That’s the Point In brief Mistral’s Large 4 puts a trillion-parameter cyber defense model in anyone’s hands. What open weights change, what the scores prove, and what to check first. French AI startup Mistral released the weights of Mistral Large 4, nicknamed “Le Chonk,” … Read more

Moonshot Deliberately Limits Kimi K3.1 Pro’s Hacking Skills Before Open-Weight Release

October 26, 2026 by Shoaib Hassan

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In brief Moonshot cut cyber training data from Kimi K3.1 Pro before its Nov. 4 open-weight release, lowering its internal cyber score to 81%. Here is what changed. Moonshot announced Kimi K3.1 Pro on October 24, 2026, and plans to release its full model weights by November 4, 2026. The company removed cyber-related data from … Read more